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german officials in late 1995 and wrote an article in der spiegel, a widely @ - @ read weekly magazine, describing scientology as a totalitarian system operating a gulag – the rehabilitation project force – for members of scientology's sea org found guilty of transgressions. from the mid @ - @ 1990s onward, press articles, reports and essays on scientology appeared on an almost daily basis, accompanied by books and television programmes that reached a mass audience. as noted by the religious scholar hubert seiwert, scientology came to be seen as a " serious political danger that not only threatened to turn individuals into will @ - @